Cloudinary Image & Video Release Notes: September 3, 2025
Last updated: Aug-31-2025
Cloudinary Video
AI-powered video details generation
The upload and explicit methods of the Upload API now include a new parameter, auto_video_details, which generates comprehensive AI-powered metadata for your videos, including titles, descriptions, and automatic tags. This feature works on videos with audio that includes dialogue and provides richer contextual information to help organize and discover your video content.
When you upload videos with auto_video_details: true or by enabling the option in your upload preset, the system automatically:
- Generates meaningful titles and descriptions based on video content analysis
- Automatically adds relevant tags to help categorize and search your videos
- Stores metadata as context values that the Cloudinary Video Player 3.1.0+ can use or that you can access via the Admin API
You can also instruct the Video Player to auto-generate titles and descriptions on demand by setting title: true and/or description: true in your player configuration. Note that player-based generation only creates titles and descriptions; automatic tag generation is only available through the Upload API auto_video_details parameter.
Video Player AI auto-generation
The Cloudinary Video Player can now also automatically generate transcripts and chapters (as well as titles and descriptions described above) on demand when you set them in your player configuration. This enables lazy generation, rather than generating them on upload or via the UI.
Video Player download button
You can now set download: true in your player configuration to display a download button in the video player controls.
Videos (including adaptive streaming formats) download as MP4 files. Audio files download as MP3 files. A loading spinner appears while The player transcodes the content for download.
Asset and account management
Remote MCP servers now available with OAuth authentication
Cloudinary's Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are now available as remote, cloud-hosted servers with OAuth authentication support in addition to the previously published local-only deployment model.
Key benefits of remote MCP servers:
- Easy setup: No local installation required. Simply authenticate via OAuth to connect to your Cloudinary account.
- Universal accessibility: Works with web-based AI agents, IDEs, and any MCP-compatible client with internet access.
Remote servers communicate via Server-Sent Events (SSE) and you can access them from anywhere with an internet connection, making them ideal for teams and web-based development environments.
Learn more about MCP server deployment options
CLI clone enhancement
The clone command in the Cloudinary CLI now supports cloning restricted assets as well as public ones.
auth_key in your CLI configuration as described in the linked documentation below. Manage derived assets in the Media Library
The new Derived Assets tab on the Manage page now lets you quickly delete, download, open, or edit your transformations in the Transformation Builder.
Docs and demo apps
Captions, subtitles and chapters in video tutorials
You can now watch all video tutorials in the docs with captions and subtitles in a large number of languages. The tutorials also include automatic chapters, making it easier to jump to the parts of the video you're most interested in.
Each of these features were added using the Cloudinary Video Player and Cloudinary's AI-based capabilities.
Learn more:
New Astro Sample Project
There's a new Photo Album sample project available, which demonstrates how to use the community-developed Astro SDK for uploading files to Cloudinary, and using transformations to optimize and customize their delivery and display.
Announcements
create_collage and sprite endpoint deprecation
The /sprite and the create_collage API endpoints (and corresponding SDK methods) will be deprecated as of September 16, 2025, and will no longer function after that date. Be sure to remove these features from any production code.
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